Queen Elizabeth: 60 years on the Throne

Queen Elizabeth

The 20-year-old Princess Elizabeth is shown at Buckingham Palace in 1950. In honor of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, TASCHEN books is releasing a new book titled, "Her Majesty" that tells of the queen's remarkable royal story through hundreds of stunning photographs, many previously unseen.

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Queen Elizabeth

The 20-year-old Princess Elizabeth is shown at Buckingham Palace in 1950. In honor of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, TASCHEN books is releasing a new book titled, "Her Majesty" that tells of the queen's remarkable royal story through hundreds of stunning photographs, many previously unseen.

Lisa Sheridan/Bettmann/Corbis

Queen Elizabeth

Deputizing for her father, Princess Elizabeth takes the salute for the first time at Trooping of the Color, 1950.

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The royal family at the Great Lodge, WindsorPark, 1946.

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The queen being greeted in Fiji, 1963.

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The newly anointed queen in Westminster Abbey, 1953.

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Cecil Beaton photographing her majesty at Buckingham Palace, 1955.

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The royal couple wave goodbye at the conclusion of their tour of the West Indies, 1966.

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Driving through Windsor with her two children at the wheel of her Daimler, 1957.

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Queen Elizabeth meets stars, including Marilyn Monroe, at the "Battle of the River Plate" film premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London, 1956.